A nine time world foosball champion best defines the stage for our bio of William Pappaconstantinou. Traveling all the way from Dracut, Massachusetts, the 29-year-old has career poker earnings of only $16,379, most of which came from a cash in a WPT event. None of the earnings came from WSOP events, in fact, Pappaconstantinou's WSOP earnings are zero and his WSOP experience prior to the 2014 Main Event are non-existent. His poker table experience is headed by a continuing stint working as a poker dealer at a Salem, New Hampshire charity poker room, Rockingham Park Poker Room.

This unlikely WSOP Main Event final table player appears to be perfectly suited to compete with the other eight members of the 2014 November Nine. During my brief conversation with Billy Pappaconstantinou I got the definite impression that he hadn't quite fully realized he now has a 1 in 9 chance of banking $10,000,000. He will be coming to the November final table with the 6th largest chip stack at T17,500,000 and will occupy seat #1.

William Pappaconstantinou's journey to the 2014 World Series of Poker final table is almost as unusual as the player himself, an individual that never finished high school and has never held a driver's license.. He started this WSOP adventure in Canada teaching a man how to play championship foosball. The foosball player he was coaching took an interest in Pappaconstantinou's dream of playing in the WSOP Main Event and sponsored him for his trip to the Big Poker Show at the Rio in Las Vegas.

Pappaconstantinou began his Main Event with the Day1B crowd and finished with 68,775 in chips. Day 2 saw his total climb to 104,900 while Day 3 was not re3corded. Day 4 was the start of his climb to nose bleed levels when he finished with 757,000 in play money. Day 5 the climb into the rare air of the stratosphere produced a day's total of 3.37 million in chips. Day 6 Pappaconstantinou finished in 4th place on the chip leader board with 15.64 million in his stacks. Day 7 locked up his November Nine position and seat at the Main Event final table scheduled for November 10 and 11 with 17.5 million in tournament chips.

What an amazing adventure for this New Hampshire poker dealer. Billy Pappaconstantinou is considered to be the only amateur at the 2014 Main Event final table. He plans to spend his break time pursuing his world class level of play in tournament foosball.

When questioned about his success at this year's event the personable player summed up his feelings about his journey with, “This isn't realistic to me,” followed by, “I'm just a poor kid dealer trying to live a dream.” When asked if he thought he had a chance to win it all he responded with exactly the right statement, “We all have a shot.”

We wish you all the luck at the 2014 World Series of Poker's November final table so your first time living the dream can become a reality.